# Anyone Here Been To Kamloops? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 16, 2009, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-here-been-to-kamloops/503235 "2009-07-16T17:19:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Markxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2009, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-here-been-to-kamloops/503235/1 "2009-07-16T17:19:18Z")
I was reading about [Kamloops](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamloops), Canada? Yeah I should say Kamloops, British Columbia, but it’s just so much better to use the alliteration. I like places with cools sounding names and Kamloops is in the top ten on my list. So if you’ve lived there, visited there or passed through there, tell me about it. What’s it like? ---
**Author:** ![This\_Just\_In\_2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@This\_Just\_In\_2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/This_Just_In_2)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2009, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-here-been-to-kamloops/503235/2 "2009-07-16T17:26:06Z")
I’ve driven through it a few times. It’s in beautiful BC, surrounded like most places in BC with lots of forest/mountains. It’s quite hot in the summer, and very dry - lying in the rain shadow of the coastal mountains. It’s very pretty really, but if you’re just going to see 1 place in BC it wouldn’t necessarily be the first one I’d recommend. How about Victoria, Kimberley, Parksville to name a few. There are a multitude of fantastic destinations out that way. ---
**Author:** ![MrSquishy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b9e5f3/32.png) [@MrSquishy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrSquishy)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2009, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-here-been-to-kamloops/503235/3 "2009-07-16T18:46:55Z")
Sure, I’ve been there a bunch of times. If you drive from Edmonton to Vancouver that’s probably the way you’d go (Yellowhead to Coquihalla to Trans-Canada). It seems alright, but, like **TJI…** said, don’t go to B.C. just to go to Kamloops. While you’re there, go to Kelowna or Penticton or Invermere. ---
**Author:** ![MerryMagdalen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c2a13f/32.png) [@MerryMagdalen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MerryMagdalen)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2009, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-here-been-to-kamloops/503235/4 "2009-07-16T19:53:28Z")
I’ve been [here](http://www.wendegolodge.com/) twice when I was small, and my dad and grandparents still go up there sometimes, I think. Norm and Flo are the nicest people ever. So if you want an excuse to go to Kamloops, and you like to fish or just watch the loons, why not support Norm and Flo? ---
**Author:** ![Spectralist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Spectralist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectralist)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2009, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-here-been-to-kamloops/503235/5 "2009-07-16T21:37:58Z")
I’ve been through it when i was a kid but don’t remember it at all. I make the scorecards for a golf course there. From the picture on the card it looks like a pretty course. ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2009, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-here-been-to-kamloops/503235/6 "2009-07-16T21:46:56Z")
We drove through it when I was a kid, and I do remember it being beautiful. I also remember driving south from Kamloops and catching brook trout from right next to the freaking road, which was miraculous to me, a southern California girl. ---
**Author:** ![Shamozzle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shamozzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shamozzle)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2009, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-here-been-to-kamloops/503235/7 "2009-07-16T23:52:46Z")
I live in BC and have been to Kamloops many times. Its beautifully set at the intersection of two arid valleys which are part of a larger network of arid valleys. No trees really, it’s mostly sage brush, rattle snakes, tiny cactii and beautiful rolling hills. In the Summer it is HOT. I’ve seen 45 Celsius there. For you Fahrenheiters, that means freaking hot. Kamloops is located at the northern tip of a vast geography that intermittently juts out of Washington, Idaho, Oregon, Nevada, Utah, etc. BC is composed of many diverse geographies and ecosystems: An hour or two out of Kamloops in any direction will put you in coastal rainforest, ice-capped mountains or endless temperate forest. I love BC. ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2009, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-here-been-to-kamloops/503235/8 "2009-07-17T02:38:17Z")
I spent several hours there in February 1987, waiting at the bus terminal for a late bus. It was cold and dreary. I’m sure the town itself has some interesting things to offer, but I didn’t see any of them. ---
**Author:** ![Stainz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecd19e/32.png) [@Stainz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stainz)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2009, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-here-been-to-kamloops/503235/9 "2009-07-17T04:31:01Z")
I live in Kamloops. It’s okay. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Savannah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@Savannah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Savannah)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2009, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-here-been-to-kamloops/503235/10 "2009-07-17T05:15:45Z")
> [@This\_Just\_In\_2](#): > > How about Victoria, Kimberley, Parksville to name a few. There are a multitude of fantastic destinations out that way. I’ve lived in Kimberley (liked it), currently live in Victoria (obviously very happy here) and have been to Parksville. All three destinations are superior to Kamloops, I think. If you want to visit a BC town with a weird name, stop in at Ymir. ---
**Author:** ![Myrrajh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/87869e/32.png) [@Myrrajh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Myrrajh)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2009, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-here-been-to-kamloops/503235/11 "2009-07-17T05:21:46Z")
Kamloops gets a big “meh” from me. I’ve been there many times and just stopped for gas there on the way to/from Vancouver more often. My brother got married there one spring and it was gorgeous, but in the summer it’s like a little slice of hell. I don’t like heat. The few times I stayed overnight I was rather bored. Didn’t seem like much to do. My friend grew up there and fished all around the city. As has been mentioned, if you get out of Kamloops a short distance you’re in mountains and lakes, etc. That part of BC (Okanagan Valley-ish) is part of the Sonoma Desert that runs down to Mexico. So yeah, hot and dry. Lots of rattlers around there, from what I hear. ---
**Author:** ![amarinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2009, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-here-been-to-kamloops/503235/12 "2009-07-17T06:33:11Z")
I spent a night there on the way from Seattle to Banff. It’s a nice small town. But if you’re going there, I’d say head south to Kelowna (which is also nicely alliterative) and the rest of the wine country. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2009, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-here-been-to-kamloops/503235/13 "2009-07-17T13:27:02Z")
I’ve spent a night in Kamloops, while driving between Vancouver and Calgary. I didn’t really get the chance to see much though. FWIW, I’ve also been to Victoria and Kimberley. In each place, I got to spend a little more time than I did in Kamloops. Nice places! ---
**Author:** ![This\_Just\_In\_2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@This\_Just\_In\_2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/This_Just_In_2)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2009, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-here-been-to-kamloops/503235/14 "2009-07-17T15:15:28Z")
Still staying in BC, but how about Yoho! Yoho is a cool sounding name and has the additional benefit of being an awesome place to visit (assuming you like the outdoors even just a little bit). In my opinion, Kamloops rates a 6.5-7 as far as places to see, but Yoho would get a 9.5 easy! You’ll be blown away with the natural beauty at Yoho National Park in the heart of the Canadian Rockies. ---
**Author:** ![Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/le_ministre_de_l_au-dela/32/12181_2.png) [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Le_Ministre_de_l_au-dela)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2009, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-here-been-to-kamloops/503235/15 "2009-07-17T18:48:05Z")
Big second to Yoho - there’s [Lake O’Hara](http://www.lakeohara.com/) (lodge optional), the [spiral tunnels](http://www.cbc.ca/sevenwonders/wonder_spiral_tunnel.html), [Takakkaw Falls](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takakkaw_Falls) and the [Burgess Shale](http://www.burgess-shale.bc.ca/). Kamloops is in some nice countryside, but it is not very special. Yoho is fantastic, and also has a cool name. ---
**Author:** ![meek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ce73a5/32.png) [@meek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/meek)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2009, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-here-been-to-kamloops/503235/16 "2009-07-18T17:06:54Z")
> [@Savannah](#): > > …If you want to visit a BC town with a weird name, stop in at Ymir. I’ll see your Ymir and raise you a [Yahk](http://www.britishcolumbia.com/regions/towns/?townID=3525) ---
**Author:** ![HelloKitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ecccb3/32.png) [@HelloKitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HelloKitty)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2009, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-here-been-to-kamloops/503235/17 "2009-07-18T19:10:25Z")
Funny I was just thinking about Kamloops. In 2006 my company sent me and some co-workers up there for 2 weeks to do some training. We had a nice time there, it was in October and there were some lovely fall days. Being from flat-landerville (Kansas) it was nice to be surrounded by hills and mountains every day. We took a little side trip to watch the salmon run which is something that doesn’t happen every day here in the midwest. The best part about Kamloops was all the great people we met up there. Everyone thought we talked funny, though! ---
**Author:** ![Raygun99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Raygun99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raygun99)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2009, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-here-been-to-kamloops/503235/18 "2009-07-18T20:58:09Z")
The best B.C. placename is, of course, Osoyoos. ---
**Author:** ![bare](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bare/32/471_2.png) [@bare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bare)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2009, 8:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-here-been-to-kamloops/503235/19 "2009-07-19T08:15:29Z")
> [@meek](#): > > I’ll see your Ymir and raise you a [Yahk](http://www.britishcolumbia.com/regions/towns/?townID=3525) Hey, I live in Yahk! Actually, just south of the border, but if I toss a case of beer in the Moyie River at Yahk I don’t have to declare it at the border and it’ll be delivered right to my door via rapid express. I’m leaving Kamloops to the Canadians, but I want Kelowna. ---
**Author:** ![Manduck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manduck/32/256_2.png) [@Manduck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manduck)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2009, 8:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-here-been-to-kamloops/503235/20 "2009-07-19T08:57:36Z")
> [@Raygun99](#): > > The best B.C. placename is, of course, Osoyoos. Why, did something happen to Spuzzum? I’ve never been there, mind you, but still you can’t top that name. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-here-been-to-kamloops/503235.md?page=2)